There are so many reasons to grow a garden in your yard. Growing your own vegetables is better for health, better for your wallet, better for the earth.
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Harvesting Leaf Lettuce: How to Make Yours Produce for Weeks (or Months)
Knowing how & when to harvest lettuce helps make the most of garden space. Instead of salad for one meal, this harvest trick lets you enjoy it for weeks.
Growing Swiss Chard: Greens for Gardens and Container Growing
Growing Swiss chard in containers is a great way for urbanites to grow some greens. Of course, Swiss chard is a great addition to a full-sized garden, too.
Flowers that Attract Bees and Butterflies for Pollination
Plant flowers for bees and other pollinators to increase your harvest. These perennial flowers that attract bees are pretty and draw pollinators to gardens.
How to Grow Eggplant in Your Garden
Ready to grow eggplant in your garden for a delightful harvest? Read on to find out all about growing this eye-popping vegetable crop.
Growing Kale in the Home Garden for Dark, Leafy Greens
Growing kale is easy! Its harvest season can last for an extended time, so you’ll reap the benefits of this dark, leafy green for months with just a single planting. Consider growing kale in your garden for fresh use and freeze some for adding to fruit smoothies. The dark green leafy greens are highly nutritious!
Small Vegetable Garden Ideas: Get the Most from Your Space
These small garden ideas will help you get the most bang for your vegetable gardening buck!
Growing Tomatoes in Containers to Save Space
Small garden space? Consider growing tomatoes in pots! Heres what you need to know about growing this summertime crop in containers.
Growing Flavorful Roma Tomatoes for Cooking and Home Canning
Growing Roma tomatoes nets a meatier, less seedy variety of tomato, perfect for cooking up into thick, rich sauces or for dehydrating to stock your pantry.
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
If you’re ready to shake up your pantry routine and shift from boxed to homemade, be sure to check out my latest project, Attainable Sustainable Pantry (National Geographic Books).
My earlier book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (also from National Geographic Books) was awarded the best how-to book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Here at Attainable Sustainable, I encourage readers to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time.
